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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 144

Notice as to the making of By-laws under the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Amendment Act, 1933.—(Notice No. Ag. 3713.)

N OTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Amendment Act, 1933, as amended by section 4 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, of the making by the societies named in the Schedule hereto and of the approval by the Governor-General of by-laws under the above-entitled Act controlling the admission of persons to any place used or occupied by the said societies for any meetings, show, exhibition, competition, or entertainment held by each such society. The by-laws made by the Feilding Industrial, Agricultural, and Pastoral Association on the 25th day of October, 1935, and published in the Gazette on the 21st day of November, 1935, at page 3383, are substantially the same as the by-laws made by the said societies to which this notice relates.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Society. Date By-laws made. Date By-laws came into force.
The Helensville Agricultural and Pastoral Association 26th August, 1939 30th November, 1939.
The Tauranga Agricultural and Pastoral Association 25th September, 1939 30th November, 1939.
The Katikati Agricultural and Pastoral Society 4th November, 1939 30th November, 1939.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations 1939—Scale of Values.

P URSUANT to the Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations 1939, I, Walter Nash, Minister of Marketing, do hereby fix the following Scale of Values of greasy wool for the purposes of the regulations.

SCALE OF VALUES.

Super to Average. Average to Inferior.
Merino 17d. to 13½d. 13½d. to 8½d.
Half-bred 18d. to 13½d. 13d. to 11½d.
Fine Cross-bred 15½d. to 13½d. 13d. to 10½d.
Medium Cross-bred 14½d. to 11½d. 11d. to 10d.
Coarse Cross-bred 13½d. to 11d. 10½d. to 9½d.

In the appraisement of wool under the regulations values will be assigned to wool in accordance with the Scale of Values but subject to variations on account of yield, handle, tenderness, manner of skirting, amount of seed-content, and all other factors affecting the appearance or condition of the wool.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1939.

W. NASH, Minister of Marketing.

Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations 1939—Appointment of Wool Advisory Committee.

P URSUANT to the Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations 1939, I, Walter Nash, Minister of Marketing, hereby appoint

Hubert Maxwell Christie, Esquire,
Alfred Hyde Cookayne, Esquire, I.S.O., Chairman,
George Andrew Duncan, Esquire,
David Alexander Ewen, Esquire,
Sir Alexander Fowler Roberts, K.B.E., and
Albert Smith, Esquire,

to be members of the Wool Advisory Committee for the purposes of the regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1939.

W. NASH, Minister of Marketing.

Officiating Ministers for 1939.—Notice No. 43.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1939.

P URSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Richard Rex Clark.
The Reverend George Pilkington Cook.
The Reverend Rona McLeod Gourdie, L.Th.
The Reverend Vernon William Joblin.
The Reverend Hohepa Taepa.
The Reverend Philip Nelson Wright.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend David Roland Allan.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice to Mariners No. 64 of 1939.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th December, 1939.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—PORT NICHOLSON.

Buoy Established.

Position : Lat., 41° 19′ S. ; long., 174° 51′ E. (approx.) 330°, 2,600 ft. from Steeple Rock Beacon.

Details : A small aluminium-painted mooring buoy for the use of the examination steamer has been established in the above position.

Chart affected : No. 1423.

Publications : New Zealand Pilot 1930, page 98. ‘New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables,’ page 239 ; 1940 edition, page 238.

Authority : Wellington Harbour Board, 22/11/39.

(M. 3/3/15.)

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 65 of 1939.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th December, 1939.

NEW ZEALAND.—ALTERATIONS IN TIME-SIGNALS.

Mariners are hereby advised that the existing time-signals from ZLW will be replaced on the 1st January by the modified Onogo system (see Admiralty List of Wireless Signals, Vol. II, page 218) as follows :—

G.M.T. H. M. S. “Attention” Z M O
22 55 30 to 22 56 00 O (———) every 10 seconds; except that the third series from 25 seconds to 30 seconds consists of a single dash prolonged for 5 seconds.
22 57 00 to 22 57 49 X (—— —) every 5 seconds.
22 57 55 to 22 58 00 Time-signal: Six dots separated by intervals of 1 second (· · · · · ·)
22 58 08 to 22 58 50 N (— ·) every 10 seconds.
22 58 55 to 22 59 00 Time-signal: Six dots separated by intervals of 1 second (· · · · · ·)
22 59 08 to 22 59 50 G (— — ·) every 10 seconds.
22 59 55 to 23 00 00 Time-signal: Six dots separated by intervals of 1 second (· · · · · ·)

The series of six dots which constitute the actual time-signals are transmitted directly from the Dominion Observatory signal clock, which is seldom more than 0·25 second in error. Corrections to the time-signals can be obtained on application to the Observatory.

The preparatory and intermediate signals are sent from a special transmitter and should not be used as time-signals.

Publications affected : Admiralty List of Wireless Signals, Vol. I, 1939, No. 3625. New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, page 121.

Authority : Acting Director, Dominion Observatory, 18/7/38.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 25/255.)